Georg Vollnhals wrote > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beech 99 renewed > > > D M schrieb: > > Dear people, > > > > The development of the new Beech 99 is going nicely. > Hi Dick, > yes I tried the new Beech 99 and you did a nice job until now :-) > > I've uploaded the latest version to: > > http://download.35mb.com/kcid/beech99.zip > But this site does not work for me, I got it from Ron Jensen, > thank you! > > Tell me what you think about the new model. > Please don't misunderstand me here. Every work for flightgear > is good work. Normally I would not comment such things > anymore due to a unpleasant misconception in the past. But > you asked, I will tell you my opinion, don't shoot on me: The > major one: With FG OSG (!) there are a lot transparency > problems. Not only the roof and the instruments shining > through but also some other parts of the a/c (ie if you look > through the windows of one side there is no cabin on the > other side (depending on the view angle) but you look > straight on the engine nacelles.) I think you use the PLIB > version for development, so you might not realize this. This > is really a big task to correct this. If you want some > screenshots, please tell me. The minor one: Thank you for > making the tires round! This looks much better than your > first version. When looking on the very prominent nose > section of this aircraft I get some hard rims (edges) whereas > the aircraft is nice smooth round, so one would like to > polish this section all the day :-). Could you spend some > more vertices there and smooth it a little more? This is not > important, just eye candy. The interior looks already very > good. A second version (for freight) would be an option. > > By the way it's panel is not finished yet so bear with me, most > > instruments are on. The interior will be based on a Para > jumper so if > > this option will come in the future that para's can jump > from a plane, > > this interior will be ready for that. > > > There are two alternatives how to understand this > a) if you mean just deloy parachuters, look at the existing > Lockheed Hercules C130, I made some quick screenshots for you > - not so nice but you will see what I mean - not just > dropping to earth but a nice "flightmodel" for these deployed > "objects". > > http://home.arcor.de/vollnhals-bremen/Parachuter/ > > b) if you are referencing to a multiplayer option so that one > can fly the Beech 99 and some other people log in as > parachuters and jump from your aircraft - this really would > be a nice option for the future :-)
This is almost possible right now, or at least with some small modifications. You can already ride in the back of someone else's Buccaneer, so you can ride in the back of the Beech 99. Atm this is limited to one at a time, but that's easily fixed. A parachutist jumping out with a suitable FDM will take a bit more work. Hmm - challenge for Andreas perhaps when he's back from hols? Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
